“He has experience,” Garrett said Wednesday. “He’s done it really throughout his career and he seems comfortable back there. He’ll continue to get that work and he certainly will be an option for us.”

The other candidates are rookie CB Bryan McCann and receiver Kevin Ogletree.

“I don’t know what’s going to happen,” said Newman, via the Dallas Morning News website, “but I could go out and play cetner if they asked me to. That’s a little far-fetched, but if they asked me to, I’d be out there, knees buckling and shaking.”